Innovation Patents Not Correlated

Innovation and the volume of patents are not correlated according to new study by Booz Allen. The count of patents can be a simple measure of the production of a research and development organization and provides protection for a discovery in the marketplace. However, speed-to-market is another form of differentiation that can have a powerful effect - competitors cannot replicate - which results in a strong market performance. ...

... "They point out that few patents actually have any real impact on innovation, and often the most innovative things have no patents at all. " ...

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